My wife says that I changed people's lives or ways of thinking and that I should always be proud and grateful. If I'm dismissive of what we do sometimes, a little bit, she's like, "I was a fan, you changed my life," or whatever. That's what she says.

I thought The Doors were the greatest band for a while.

I still hate [the Eagles]…. There’s levels of evil in it to me.

Don't go to the same studio twice, or work with the same engineer twice.

Something taken off the page can sound great, I guess. Usually it doesn't. It seems like lately Pitchfork is trying to champion lyric writers more.

Berlin is just an affordable European city that's supposed to be cool. There's nothing too deep about it.

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.